There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.
When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.
I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.
I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.
I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
No opposing quotes found.